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Levin H. Campbell, a Republican just finishing his first term as a state representative from Cambridge, is trying to unseat a veteran state senator, Francis X. McCann, in the Second Middlesex District, which includes the University and much of Cambridge. Campbell's over-all voting record, even allowing for straight party-line divisions, is not especially distinguished. He helped kill an extension of unemployment benefits and a needed revision of the state income and property taxes, and unsuccessfully opposed bills to raise the minimum salaries of public-school teachers and to create a consumers' council for investigating unethical business practices...
...McCann sponsored the act that directed the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses. Campbell has promised to introduce a bill to repeal the legislation if he is elected...
...McCann counterattacked with gusto. "My opponent started on the high-level campaigner routine," he said. "Before the night is over, I will give him the name of one of his supporters who took it upon himself to be a private investigator and dig into my private life...
Once these preliminaries were over, Campbell and McCann reiterated their positions on issues dividing them, notably the three underpasses that are scheduled to be built at the intersection of Memorial Drive with Western Ave, and Boylston and River Streets...
With irony that was appreciated by many in the crowd, McCann said, "I wish--I sincerely wish--I could stand here and take credit for the underpasses." But he could not, he added, because a professor had suggested building over-passes...